Confederate Monument

A chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy raised this monument in 1910, in the Lost Cause decades after Reconstruction. The war it honors was fought to keep Black people enslaved, and Bossier shows it plainly. The 1850 census counted about 4,455 enslaved people here and 2,507 whites, and in 1900 the parish still held 18,890 Black residents against 5,262 white ones. A memorial to one side of that parish went up in a place where the other side was the great majority.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Shreveport Water Works Museum — 11 mi
  An 1887 brick pumping station on McNeill Street where Worthington steam pumps ran until 1980, now a free museum and a National Historic Landmark.
• Spring Street Museum — 11 mi
  An 1866 bank building downtown that also held a Freedman's Savings and Trust branch in 1870, now a free LSUS-run museum with a Victorian parlor and the original vault.
• Shreveport Municipal Auditorium — 12 mi
  The Art Deco hall of 1929 where the Louisiana Hayride went out over KWKH from 1948 to 1960 and where Elvis Presley first played Shreveport on October 16, 1954.
• Louisiana State Exhibit Museum — 14 mi
  A circular Art Deco museum of 1939 on the Shreveport fairgrounds, with a 1,000-year-old Caddo log boat, rotunda murals and dioramas of early Caddo Parish.

More markers nearby

• Hughes House — 1.0 mi
• Mounds Plantation — 4.5 mi
• Louisiana Maneuvers Led by General Patton — 7.0 mi
• Belcher Mound — 7.1 mi